China: Hacking the Education Machine
If education is treated as the product of a factory system, innovation becomes a function of resistance to the system rather than the output. In this case, the innovation took the form of starting a gray market within the machine.
One group of parents, some of them local officials, persuaded a teacher to fax them the questions once the exam got under way.
They had organised six university students to answer them.
They sent these answers using mobile phones to their children in the exam hall who were wearing tiny earpieces.
Another man had employed more high-tech equipment.
He bribed a student taking the same exam as his son to get him the questions using a miniature scanner.
He had nine teachers on standby to answer them.
He then transmitted the answers back to the two boys taking the exam.
A third scam involved a teacher at the school who had charged hundreds of dollars to get the answers to students but whose equipment failed.
-Shlok
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